Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to establish a $155,287.00 contract with the Private Industry Council, Incorporated (PIC) to provide resources (youth participants, adult team leaders, project coordinator/manager, support staff, tools and supplies) for the 2005 Columbus Neighborhood Clean-up Program. Keep Columbus Beautiful administers this program for the Refuse Collection Division. The Columbus Neighborhood Clean-up Program, or Clean Team, is program that strives to develop employability skills within up to eighty (80) low-income youth participants while providing services to the City of Columbus. Services provided by the Clean Team include Environmental Awareness and Outreach to the target neighborhoods, blight abatement in the form of clean-up operations in the streets and alleys, removing litter and graffiti within rights-of-ways and thoroughfares within and adjacent to Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) strip areas. The Private Industry Council's contract compliance number is 31-1071765; they are a not-for-profit organization. This contract will run through December 31, 2005. This contract has been executed annually for many years.
This legislation is presented as an emergency so that hiring and staffing necessary for this program can be resolved before the start of the actual program in June.
Fiscal Impact: The Refuse Collection Division's 2005 Community Development Block Grant Fund budget contains $155,287.00 for this purpose. This represents a slight decrease from the amount of last year's contract ($156,072.00) and $158,000 in 2003.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a contract with the Private Industry Council, Incorporated, to operate a summer youth litter clean-up program on behalf of the Refuse Collection Division and to authorize the expenditure of $155,287.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($155,287.00)
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WHEREAS, there is a need within the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, to provide for the 2005 Columbus Neighborhood Clean-up Program to address environmental awareness and outreach and alley/neighborhood litter clean-ups and blight abatement; and
WHEREAS, the Private Industry Council, Incorporated (PIC) is a not-for-profit organization that provides resources and conducts clean-up and blight abatement operations in and adjacent to Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) strips using low income youth employment and training programs; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to establish a contract with the Private Industry Council, Incorporated, to administer the 2005 Columbus Neighborhood Clean-up Program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Public Service Director to enter into contract with the Private Industry Council, Incorporated, to operate a summer youth litter clean-up program on behalf of Keep Columbus Beautiful and the Refuse Collection Division so that the hiring and staffing necessary for this program can be resolved before the actual start of the youth employment program in June, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to enter into a contract with the Private Industry Council, Incorporated to provide resources to develop youth employability skills, perform environmental awareness efforts, and blight abatement operations for the 2005 Columbus Neighborhood Clean-up Program through December 31, 2005, on behalf of Keep Columbus Beautiful and the Refuse Collection Division.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $155,287.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and hereby is authorized from Fund 248, the Community Development Block Grant Fund, Department No. 59-02, Refuse Collection Division, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3336, OCA Code 595526 for this purpose.
SECTION 3. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Code, 1959, as amended.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.